Educational technologies

Draft

Definition

Educational technologies are technologies that are used in education. Not to be confounded with educational technology - the field.

Families of technologies

DSchneider is not yet sure which categories to adopt and how to create a global taxonomy. Basque and Lundgren-Cayrol (2003) analyzed 24 different typologies of ICT usage in schools !

Links

• TECHNOS Quarterly. TQ: TECHNOS Quarterly for Education and Technology is a forum for the discussion of ideas about the use of technology in education, with a focus on reform (1992 - 2002)

• European Committee for Standardization (CEN)- Learning Technologies. List of CWAs (publications)

References

• Basque, Josianne & Sylvie Doré (1998) Le concept d'environnement d'apprentissage informatisé, Journal of Distance Education/Revue de l'enseignement à distance, 13(1), ISSN 0830-0445, HTML

• University of California at Berkeley, Field Guide to Design Experiments in Education, Chapter "Design Experiment Technologies" HTML in

• Using Technology to Support Education Reform - September 1993, Chapter II: Educational Technologies, HTML

• J. Granville Marshall (2000), Understanding the Peril & Promise, Nouns & Verbs, of Educational Technologies, Technos: Quarterly for Education and Technology. HTML - HTML Print.